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to their customers. The trouble is as to
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to their customers. The trouble is as to
time, the best given being ninety days.
The currency of the country has been
contracted in an astonishing way and to a
surprising amount. At the close of the
war, money was in circulation to the
amount of 5 $4,000, 600, 900. The South had
very little of this money; indeed, she had
very little of any kind of money.
During the year 1866, the currency in
circulation amounted to 81, 300, 702, 726, a
per capita of S56.76. In 1877, the amount
wa $500, 443, 1894, a per capita of $14.6O. 1t
thus appears that the circulating medium
of the country has been contracted 81 ,107,-
1888 in t~wenty-one years, an annual av-
erage decrease of $52,726,634. The per
capita reduction amounts to 1926. These
figures speak volumes.
MEASURING TIME.
The story is that King Alfred had no
better way to tell the time than by burn
ing twelve candles, each of which lasted
two hours, and, when all the twelve
were gone, another day had passed. Many
years before the time of Alfred, and
many years before the time of Christ, the
shadow of the sun told the time of day by
means of q sun dial. The old Chaldeans
so placed a hollow hemisphere, with a
bead in the center, that the shadow of the
bead on the inner surface told the hour
of the day. Other kinds of dials were
afterWard made with a tablet of wood or
straight piece of metal. On the ablet
were marked the different hours. When
the shadow am to the mark IN, it was
nine o'clock in the morning. The dial
was sometimes placed near the ground, or
in towers or buildings. You see in he
picture two sun dials that are on the Gray
and Black Nunnery in Ottawa, the capital
of Canada. The cIockz-on the eastern
end Of Faneuil Hall in Boston was for
merly a dial of this kind, and in some of
the old church towers in England you
may see them to-day. Aside from the
kinds mentioned, the dials now in exist
ence are intended more for ornament than
for use. In the days when dials were used
each one contained a motto OF some kind,
like these: thine flies like the shadow"
or, 81 tell no hours but those that are hap
py."
But the dial could be used only in the
daytime, and even then it was worthless
when the sun was covered with clouds.
In order to measure the hours of the night
as we'll as the hours of the day, the Greeks
and Romans used the clepsydra, which
means 1.-THE water steals away" and a large
jar was filled with water and a hole was
made in the bottom through which the
water could run. The glass in those days
was not transparent. No one could see
from the outside how much water had
escaped. So there were made, on the in
side, certain marks that told the hours as
the water ran out or else a stick with
notches in the edges was dipped into the
water, and the depth Of what was left
showed the hour. Sometimes the water
dropped into another jar in which a block
of wood was floating, the block rising as
the hours went on. Once in awhile, some
very rich man had a clepsydra that sound
ed a musical note atseyery hour.
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Observation-Disclosures make the man."
says the proverb. 1t may be true that
some mems manners have been the
making of them but, as manners are
rather the expression of the man, it would
be more proper 10 say the man makes the
manners.
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Aamuruns department.

HE BROUGHT IN THE GAME.-There
was a wedding in Brooklyn recently which
was attended by a crowd of people, the
bride beings famous belle, the bridegroom
a late army officer. There is a story about
him that was received with great effect at
the wedding. He was in the western
frontier service, and one day $50 the story
goes) he went out to hunt a bear. He had
been away from the camp a few hours
when his voice was heard family in the
distance exclaiming:
Here we comet"
In q little time the same cry was heard
again, but nearer; then 1t was repeated at
intervals, nearer and louder, when finally
the bold captain emerged from a bit Of
woods near the camp. running at the top
of his speed, without hat, cap or gun. In
he came to camp shouting:
"Here we comet"
"Here who comes?" inquired a brother
officer.
i"Why, me and the game" gasped the
officer, pointing to a big black bear which
showed itself atthe edge of the woods, took
a long look at the camp, and then, with a
growl at missing his expected meal off the
captain, disappeared in the woods again.
aHWhat's the use in shooting your game"
bring it alive, as I did :"
The story got home before the captain
did, and was in everybody's mouth. The
other night, as the old captain led his in
tended bride into the church, with the
pride and grace so readily inspired by the
occasion, some wicked wag sang out from
the gallery:
Here we come"
winch was followed by such a shout OF
laughter as the old church never heard be-
fore,-BrOOklyn Citizen.
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WHEN Hi GETS THERE.-Bertie-"Say.
mamma, ME and Harry had a race to-
day."
Mother-aYes, dear, but you should say
Harry and I instead of me and Harry.
When you speak of yourself and another
person you should always place your
friend first"
B.-''But he wasn't first mamma l
beat him two rods. Time enough to
place him first when he gets there"
y First Thief-"Well, it's queer how
the world looks at things"
Second Thief-"What's the matter now,
Bill?"
"Well, we know 1 work as hard as any
body at thievin' an I can scarcely make a
living"
"That's So"
"An' yet my brother Bob has saved a
million on a salary of $1,000 a year, an
they call him q statesman"
pr "Do you think" said a lady to her
friend, Mrs. s., "that if you were to be
taken away your husband would ever
marry again?"
"Oh, I suppose he would" Mrs. S., re-
piled; 81 am his fourth wife, you know"
PROBABLY A "CAMPAIGN LIE."-First
Lady Voter-Did you use those ballots l
gave you to vote. yesterday?
Second Lady Voter-No, l didn't Maria,
Pm ashamed to say. They made such
beautiful curl papers, I couldn't bear to
waste 'em.-BMrhngton W. Free Press.
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THEN AND Now.-Says the Augusta
Chronicle: We have repeatedly urged that
one of the greatest wants of the South IS
more and cheaper money. OF money for
investmentthere is a superabundance East
and West, and our local banks are In con-
dition to extend the usual accommodation
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PHOTOGRAPHY.

would inform the public that I am yet max
ing PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles.
Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of
pictures. Pictures by the Photographic process
enlarged, and all work done in the best style of
the art at reasonable prices. Gallery on West
Liberty street, near the Jail.
J.. R. SCHORB.
April Is Is If
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COULDN'T HEAR IT THUNDER.

An interesting letter from MIR. John W..
Weeks, superintendent of DeKalb Pauper
Home:
From a feeling of gratitude and a desire to
benefit others, I voluntarily make this state
ment. / have great reason to be thankful that
I ever heard of b. b. B., as l know what q
blessing it has been to me. 1 have suffered
with Bronchial Catarrh for a number of years.
Six months ago I was taken with severe pain
in right ear, which in a few days began to dis
charge matter, with terrible and almost un-
bearable palpitatiOn and all sorts of noises in
my head. In ten days after the commencement
of discharge and pain in my ear l began to grow
deaf and in six weeks l was so deaf l could
not hear it thunder.
I was then compelled to use a conversation
tube, and it was often that 1 could not hear
with the tube. / then commenced taking Is.
B. B. and the running Of my ear ceased run
ming in five weeks, and I can now hear without
the tube. My general health has improved.
palpitation ceased, and feel like a new being,ap
appreciate the benefit I have received from b.
B. B. (nade in Atlanta, Ga, with gratitude to
God and thankfulness to the Proprietors fcr
such a medicine. I cheerfully II
Try it; persevere in it's use and you viii be
convinced of its value. JOHN w. WEEKS.
Superintendent DeKalb Pauper Home.
Decatur, Ga, May !, 1886.
BRIGHT'S DI5EA5E.
have been asutterer from Kidney and Blad
der troubles for several years. 1 have lately
had what is termed Bright's Disease, and have
had considerable swelling of my legs and
shortness of breath. The urea has poisoned
my blood also. I secured and am using (B. Is.
b. Botanic Blood Balm, and find 1t acts po'0er-
fuily and very quickly, and am delighted with
its effects. Ihad previously used a large guam,
tity of various advertised remedies, and several
eminent physicians also waited on me, but B.
B.. b. stands at the top. JOHN H. MARTIN.
Rnpk Craal< Ala Nav 4. 1881.
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CCHEDULE of Mail aud Passenger Trains
y from Lenoir, N. c., to Chester. S.. c.. taking
effect ats o'clock, A. NJ. Sunday, May %, 1887:
GOING souTg.
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aay- That virtue which requires to be
ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
Oirer Goldsmith.
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APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersign-
ed, Executors of the estate of VIM. I.
CLAWSON, deceased, have made a final re-
turn and settlement with the Judge of Pro-
bate for York county, and on Saturday, the
4th day Of June, 1887, at II o'clock A. NJ, will
make application for discharge from liability
as Executors of the said estate.
II. w. CLAWSON, Exo
G.. Z. SPENCER, HNecutors.
Maya Is str
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Sr Wife-'There, now, the Woman's
Journal says women are more reliable in
positions Of trust than men are"
Husband-"How do they make that
out :"
"From statistics. It is known that
where one hundred men abscond, not
more than one woman can be found who
is in the least dishonest. Now explain
that if you can"
swell, the women have no ~extravagant
wives"
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SUMNER FEEDING FOR COWS.-AmOng
the crops which may be used for summer
feeding, barley is one of the best, although
it does not yield as much as many others;
oats yield better and make a very excel
lent feed both winter and summer rye is
not as good, either green or dry, but it
grows very early in the spring /; in fact, is
one of the first crops that get large enough
to cut and feed out early in May covering,
as it does, the ground during the winter,
it protects it so we'll that the crop draws
but little more from the soil than it pre-
vents from escaping, so the land after a
crop of green rye is very nearly as rich as
before. For this reason and for the reason
of its earliness, rye is considered a desi-
rable green crop to grow.
Hungarian grass makes a very good crop
to cut green, but it soon passes toa state of
ripeness that requires it to be cut and
made into hay. When sown thick enough
to make the straw fine, it not only makes
an excellent food while green, but, we'll
season. So if a farmer has light warm
land, he will find it for his interest to SOW
an acre or two of Hungarian every year.
Fodder corn was formerly considered one
of the best green crops to feed out in the
summer, but experience has proved it to
be one of the poorest, unless the corn is
permitted to stand until the ears begin to
form.
Ba5@ There are farmers who have extra
good butter COWS and do not know it.
They have poor pasture in summer and
no shelter and Indifferent feed in winter.
In the house they have no convenience for
making butter the milk is set where
there are no arrangements for keeping it
cool in summer, and in the living room,
exposed to the odors of the kitchen, in
winter; and neither the quantity nor quail
ity nor any index of what a COW can do,
is kept.
pH~ An Illinois farmer, whose horses had
the CHAMBERS and were killed recently, died
a short time ago from blood poisoning
which was undoubtedly caused by contact
with the diseased animals whom he cared
for. The CHAMBERS is so dangerous and
hopeless a disease that when a horse is at
tackled by it he should be put out of the
way at once. 1t is one of the few animal
diseases liable to be communicated to hu-
man beings, and wherever it prevails it
should be stamped out as quickly as pos
sible.
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THE BOSTON, IDEA OF HADEs.-One of
the best and brightest girls Of the Back
bay teaches a Sunday school class in a GER
tain famous orthodox church. Last Sun
day she grew very earnest, picturing to
the eager infants who surrounded her the
joys Of heaven to be Won by those who
live and trust ina way to deserve them.
aYou must love the Lord,'' she said,
'.and be just as good as you know how to
be. You must never g%etinto tempers, you
must never tell naughty stories, you must
always mind your mammas, and be good
in every way you know how, and then
you will be sure to 60 to heaven when you
die. Won't that be nice ?"
"Yes, ma'am," lisped all the babies be-
fore her.
"Buti If you are bad" and she looked re-
lentingly into the innocent faces before her,
"you won't go to heaven. Ifyou are bad"
and she took firm grip on the doctrine
she felt called on to teach, eff you are bad,
my dear children, you will 60 to hell, and
thst+-that''-she CROPPED for a word and
ended e%loquertly, sand that would be
perfectly ridicnlous."-Boston Record.
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SATIsFIED-Did you look under the
bed r; inquired a wife OF her husband,
after he had turned out the light and got
fairly settled for a nights rest.
"No,n was the blunt response.
swell, suppose there's a man there ~
said the alarmed woman. -.
81 don't want to see him if there u.s."
was the answer.
"Well, get up and look; I shall not let
you rest until you do"
He knew her of old, and after fumbling
around, found a match, lit it and looked
under the bed. Then he threw the match
away, got into bed and whispered:
"My dear, there is a man under the
'Oh, get Quit" was the quick response.
"You can't fool me. I know better"
Then she turned over, perfectly satisfied,
and went to sleep. She had accomplished
her obiect.-EZmirG Gazette.
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INCREASING ORGANIC MATTER IN THE
SoIL.-In all we'll cropped soils the roots
of the crops, together with portions which
remain upon the soil, especially when grass
is raised, form a gradually increasing
amount of organic matter, which becomes
incorporated with the soil by blowing and
tillage and adds greatly to the capacity of
the soil. The presence of organic matter
in the soilincreases its fertility by equallZ-
ing the amount of water which the soil
will retain, so it defends the plants against
drouths. 1t not only absorbs water like a
sponge when it rains, but in dry weather
it abstracts moisture from the air which it
yields to the plant, besides it arrests and
retains certain kinds of plant food which
might otherwise be washed away or down
through the soil by rains. Again, by its
color, it absorbs the heat Of the sun and
thus warns the soil, and by its slow de-
composition, which is going on all through
the growing season, it produces carbonic
acid gas, which, being dissolved by the
water, aids in dissolving and preparing
other constituents of the soil to be taken
up by the crops. Organic matter is there
fore to he increased in soils in which it is
not naturally too abundant in every eco
nomical way. Hence composts consisting
largely of such organic constituents as
straw, leaves, swamp hay, sods, weeds,
peat, swamp muck and wood mold, are to
be recommended, quirkened with stable
manure, or with wood ashes or lime, in
place of concentrated fertilizers, which
supply only the constituents supposed to
be removed. Those articles in the form of
bone dust, ashes, potash, salts, etc, may
we'll be added to any compost, and are
thus often most conveniently applied to
the soil.-Americ0n AQricuLtuvist.
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TRIUMPHANT AS UsUAL.-Omaha Wife.
Yes, that's the way it goes. You'll be
sorry some dayyou didn't take my advice:
If my first husband had done as told
him he would have been alive to-day
Second Husband-Oh! He would? You
told him always to be in at 8 o'clock, sup.
pose, but if I remember Alright he shuf1ed
off this mortal coil about 10 O'Clock in, the
morning. ! ~
II told him over and W again to stop
smoking, and he wouldn't do it"
swell, he didn't die Oftobacco if know
anything about it. He was blown up in
an explosion"
ayes, he sat down on a key of powder
with q pipe in his mouth; so there now"
INDEED, 1T SHoULD.-"I notice." said
a clergyman's wife to her husband, "that
it is no longer fashionable for the minister
to kiss the bride at the wedding cere-
mony."
"Yes," sadly responded the good man,
"many of the pleasant features connected
with the wedding ceremony have been de-
graded, and"
"What's that?" demanded his wife, om-
inously.
81 mean-I mean" he stammered, that
the senseless custom of kissing the bride
should have been abolished long ago.
AL the Year around.
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MONEY IN BREEDING GOOD HORSES.

The best horses in the world for light
service are bred in the United States; in
deed, it may be said that this country
yields a better class of horses for all work
than does any other on the globe; but be-
yond all question, our road horses are sig
nally superior to those of any other land.
There is money, good, substantial money,
nor that in small quantity, in breeding
horses we'll, with a fixed end in view. Ev-
cry farmer has, or may have, a good mare;
it may not be one of great intrinsic value,
but a mare of good points, well.spirited,
good on the road, well-modeled as a dam,
with room to carry and ability to nourish
her foal. This mare is capable Of doing
good service in breeding, equally. with
that she renders in other labors for her
owner.
The farmers aim should be the produc-
ton of the best foal possible, because it
costs no more to raise a good than a poor
colt, and there is no economy in using a
cheap or convenient stallion, when a first
class one, of fit blood lines and high quail
ty, can be had for a little extra trouble and
a little more money. Let our readers es-
innate the value of care in breeding by
considering the prices which good stock
brings, even when young, and the condi-
tion of the markets in cities and large
towns, where good, well-looking horses,
having good action, style and substance,
always are in demand, and they will con-
clude that it pays to breed we'll. There is
no use in trying to breed valuable stock,
fthe sire is selecteda at ~hap-hazard breed
ing is a science, and there can be no sure
outcome from either its study or applica-
ton, unless the progenitor of the stock
shall have been thoroughly bred. 1t is
we'll to use a well-bred mare, whenever
this is possible but a strongly-bred sire
will unfailingly improve upon the most
ordinarily bred dam, will more than make
good her deficiencies and compensate for
the Observation-Disclosures A~gricuHurist.
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ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
"No, sir,n Numbered the old gentleman,
"I have made up my mind that my
daughter shall never marry a man who
plays poker" -,
s.She might do a great deal worse, sir"
"Impossible. Poker has proved the
victims never recover from the i~nfatua-
ton. She could never do worse"
"Excuse me, sir, but Pm sure she could.
She might marry some fellow who thinks
he plays poker"
. The old man thought it over Washing
tom Critic.
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NOT MUCH OF A RECOMMEND.-Safe
Manufacturer-The safe was badly burned?
Mr.. Doppenheimer-Yah, it wash.
Safe Manufacturer-But the books were
not burned?
Mr.. Doppenheimer-No, dey was not:
Safe Manufacturer-Ah, that's good! I'll
write a statement to that effect for you to
sign.
Mr.. Doppenheimer-Dot wash all right.
But may be I better told you dot dose
books washn't in de safe. Dey wash at
my brudder Isaac's dree blocks away
PHILADELPHIA Call.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-15
rOpEurDETo.muRRow. TO

Governor LounsburY to Settle a Long
 Disputed Point-He W1l1 in All Prob
 ability Decide That the First Conn
 pany Governors Foot Guard Shall
 Represent the State at she PhiladeI-
 phIa CentenniaI-The Regiments to
 be Left Out.
 Governor Lounsbury will designate to- morrow what soldier boys will represent the Nutmeg State at the Philadelphia centen- nial s
 Adjutant General Camp will meet the Governor at Hartford to o-morrow afternoon and the two will consnIh As to the advisabili- :ty of sending regimaAt. It was learned last night from excellent authority that no regiment will be sent; ;bat that company of the Governors Foot Guasd will be sent to do the honors for Connecticut. It is re- ported that it will be the First company of Hartford. Military men have been waiting the decision of the Governor with much in- terest. From the time that the legislature in May last approved the sending of repre- sentation of the Governors choosing there has been much talk as to which regiment would be the one of lucky choice. The mem bers of the Second regiment, without doubt the best of the four as manifested quite noticeably of late, thought they should go and the First regiment boys were equally certain they should be the Governors choice. It is now certain that none of the regiments will go and very sensible view will have been taken when it is so decided. .;.
 A prominent member of the Second regi- ment said last night to COURIER reporter that the members of the New Haven com- panies at least didn't care especially whether they were chosen to go to Philadelphia or not. 'tIf we had been chosen we would have done our duty, and as it is now we are equal ly well satisfied. As the time draws nigh to go to camp we feel that we should prefer Mantle after a1l"